Germans Flee Across Marne in Major Allied Drive
Allied forces on the Aisne Marne front push the Germans south of the Marne back across the river. Paris dispatch quotes the war office noting over 20 000 prisoners and more than 400 guns captured as the Franco American advance continues between Soissons Chateau Thierry and Rheims with heavy fighting and German withdrawals slowing northward.
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Aisne-Marne
London
Marne
Reuter
Paris
War Office
Associated Press
Soissons-Chateau Thierry
Chateau Thierry
Champagne
Soissons- Rheims
Soissons
Ghateau Thierry
Rheims
United Press
Fossey
Deuilly
Aisne
Plotsy
Parcy Tigny
St Remy Blanzy
Rozet St Albin
Priez
Courchamps
Courton Wood
4Rdre
St Euphraise
Allied Counteroffensive Advances on French Front
The official reports claim German forces retreated after a strong Allied push north and south of the Marne. Franco American and Franco British actions across the Aisne Marne corridor describe captured guns and prisoners, with air forces disrupting German logistics and supporting ground operations.
Germany claims gains in Magne river attack and Marne
Berlin semiofficially states aims of the southern Magne bank attack were achieved and the French counter offensive halted. It says about 80 French tanks took part near the Marne and Rheims sectors, while noting some enemy penetration elsewhere and promising German redeployment to the northern bank for new tasks. The report cites Lt Gen von Ardenne and a Tageblatt commentary.
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von Ardenne
Berlin
Amsterdam
Supreme Army Coommand
Maine Cr
Rheimy
The
Marne
Rheims
Aisne
Chateau Thierry
Tageblatt
Cholera Spreads in Moscow as Workers Move
A Russian wireless report says cholera cases rise in Moscow with 224 new cases and 26 stomach diseases suspected in the city within 24 hours. It notes 120 cholera cases in Petrograd province and reports Moscow workers’ commissions urging sanitary reforms and removal of workers from unhealthy rooms. A mobilization of 18 to 45 year olds for health detachments has been ordered.
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London
Moscow
Petrograd
Workmens Commission of
Deadly Train Collision Near Chelsea Claims Seventeen
Jackson Michigan July 20 seventeen killed and eighty injured in a Detroit bound limited passenger car collision with a westbound freight car one mile west of Chelsea at 830 tonight. Six of the dead were Detroit soldiers en route from Camp Custer. Unverified reports say both crew escaped by leaping. Fatalities include civilians. debris and bodies moved to undertakers as relief efforts underway.
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Jackson Mich
Chelsea
Detroit
Camp Custer
Ann Arbor
Amceng
Limited
Heroic War Women Save Civilization in France
A 1918 Washington Post feature by George Rothwell Brown extols French and American women artisans in munitions and textiles, grinding grit and sacrifice in factories behind the Marne offensive. The piece contrasts French superwomen with American war work, praising devotion, labor, and the impact on Allied supply lines.
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George Rothwell Brown
Washington Post Co
France
Marne
Hell
Roosevelt Wounded and Quentin Roosevelt Death Confirmed
Maj Theodore Roosevelt Jr was wounded slightly and taken to a Paris hospital according to a cable to Col Theodore Roosevelt from Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr The report confirms the death of Quentin Roosevelt following German note reports Arch Roosevelt is wounded Archie and Kermit Roosevelt are noted in service The Roosevelts will not receive visitors except the Japanese Red Cross commissioner in Oyster Bay on the day of confirmation, as the family stands with the war effort.
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America
Peacock Alley
Associated Press
Oyster Bay
Maj
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Paris
Col Theodore Roosevelt
Maj Roosevelt
Paria
Neil
Sieut Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin
Col
Roosevelt
Richard Derby
Nicholas Longworth
Red Cross
H P Davison
War Council of the
American Red Cross
Former Emperor Nicholay Romanoff Shot In Russia
A London report via Associated Press states former emperor Nicholas Romanoff was executed by order of the Ural regional council on July 16 after a counter revolutionary plot to free him. The seizure and diaries of the Romanoffs, Rasputin letters, and related documents are to be published, with his wife and son placed under security. Also reported: the San Diego cruiser sunk near Fire Island with 44 sailors lost, 1,156 survivors listed, and ongoing investigations.
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New Be
York
Rasputin
Ural
Preas
London
Rimperor Nicholay
Brusma
Empresas
Alentis Romanoff
Central Executive Committee
Nicholas Romanoff
Yekaterinburg
Var
New York
United States
San Diego
Fire Island
Army
Hoboken
Washington
Navy Department
Moscow
Haa Tow
Ita
Gregory Rasputin
Romanoff
Balfour denounces Hertling pawn remark on Belgium
Foreign Secretary Balfour spoke at London's Belgium independence celebration and denounced Count von Hertling for saying Germany would treat Belgium as a pawn. He warned that such a view would allow Germany to drop Belgium while keeping other gains in Europe.
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London
Balfour
Belgium
Count von Hertling
Europe
von Hertling
Germany
Rossignol Wood Taken By English
London reports German forces withdraw under heavy pressure from Rossignol wood between Hebuterne and Bucquoy, now held by British. War office says line advanced south of Habuterne a mile and 4000 yards along Meteren sector. Prisoners total 436. raid near Beaumont Hamel successful. Hebuterne lies between Albert and Arras.
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London
Hebuterne
Bonsignol Wood
Bocquoy
Meteren
Associated Press
Rossignol Wood
Hebduterne
Bucquoy
Lis
War Office
Habuterne
Flandera
le Waton
Beaumont-Hamel
Albert
Arras
Czecho Slovaks Cut Supplies From Germany War Front
Czecho Slovaks, led by Gen W Diterichs, routing German and Hungarian influence, seize control of Samara and Kazan, sever Turkestan Siberia supply lines, and take Volga air traffic, while Masaryk directs political policy from Washington and Japan joins in with U S to restore order in Siberia.
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Diterichs
Masaryk
Trotzky
Harve
Russia
Germany
Turkestan
Siberia
Samara
Volga
Kazan
Moscow
W Diterichs
Dukhonin
Thomas & Masarsk
Trof Masarih
Washington
Zen Miterichev
Vladivostok
Nikolsk
Irkutsk
Pensa
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Vouzieres
Fere-en-Tardenes
Laon
Bolshevik Wireless
Michigan
U. S
Yankees
Toate
Maj. Theo. Roosevelt
Wilson
Archie Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Mesopotamia
United States Army
Thanks Wilson
Czar
Daniels
Palmer
Persile
Army Docks
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Haig
HUN
Siberian
Ryley Grannon
Tokyo
Gen Parte
Gen Dyteriche
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